Recoding my work

I woul dbe lying to say i got all my work done in the first week. Other papers work took far longer than i anticipated so before i went away i had not completed all that much. In fact all i had done was created the first two mouse clicks and what had happened. a handy variable i added in which was suggested to me by a classmate was the circle size variable. this mean that in each mouse click count i can just change the circles sizes by using the variable rahter than transfroming them like i did in my other code. I think that what i have done will make it easier for me to carry on. I have missed the tutorial as i was away on the 21st which is bad as i am not a very experienced codeer. but oh well.

I have decided that the logic behind the colour wheel pallete and the small circles inside was a bit out of it, it would make more sense that inside the circles there were two little circles that show the resulting colour if that big coloured circle was combined with ither of the surrounding circles. I have decided that in order to progress my code i will make it sort of never ending by making the circles transform out and then back track back in. I am definitely goin gto keep the idea of the changing circle sizes as thats what was the main idea of my intial plan that makes it different and visually exciting.

Another class member told me about a blog he was reading and a code they uploaded that was just siomple circles but as you moved the mouse over the circles they would split into four. This has opened my eyes, that i dont do enough investigating on open processing, therefore im constantly doing everything from scratch which is just making more work for myself. so i have decided to start looking at more sketches and their code, in hopes that it will inspire me or that i can even use some of theyre code in my work.

Devlopment

So far i have created my image so that it is in stages and goes form a big black dot-small black dot with 3 big black dots-big black dot 3small black dots and 3 big blakc dots. this is the basics of my design and so now i need to include sound and create some better effects. Instead of having the dots inside each other im going to make them only appear when the mouse is over the dot. this will make it more interesting.

Development 2

I have staged the clip so that it can reverse. I have looked at other open processing clips, but to be honest even the effects i would like to use i cant figue out how to relate them to mine and include it. So i think il just have to continue.

I have added in tones. I used Ben's advice and used soundcipher, and for each stage there is a tone. Finding three or four tones that sound good together, proves harder than expected. but i have found three tones to relate with the three stages.

WHen the mouse is over the circles if the frame rate is high it is unberable repetitive and sound like a beeping or ringing. so i had to slow the frame rate down to make i sound better as i cant figure out how to make it only beep once over the hovering circles. It sounds nice when its repeated though slower, the only constraint is that my clip is less smoother, but i dont think this is huge thing to stress about.

I also think i t will be cooler if i incorporate some more colour or something. as although it is effective having white space and then the coloured dotes. it would be nice to have something more interesting happen when you press the dots. i will have a play around.

Development 3

Its the night before hand- in and i have figured out how to make the colour of the dot that has been selected flash. this makes the whole clip more visually appealing and exciting. I think it is ready for hand in now which is exciting.